Asian Moms

Check out this website, My Mom is a FOB, started by two smart alack college kids in the UC system. FOB, by the way, stands for "Fresh off the boat" which is a derogatory name for an Asian immigrant. But in this case it's used in a lovingly way.

What's interesting about this little collection of moments is that it's so distinctly American. You realize that it takes two people to create this one crazy Asian mom character portrayed on the website - the immigrant mother and the Americanized children.

Go through a couple of these posts and you'll find a mother knows what she is trying to do/say but it's comes out contextually wrong. And then you'll see a kid who knows what their mother is trying to do/say, but they won't give their mothers the benefit of the doubt.